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MHG12935 - Arnaboll

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NC45NE 1 4686 5801.

(NC 4686 5801) Brough (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, (1908).

This is not a broch, but a large truncated round cairn.
It is 27.0m in diameter and 1.5m high, and is composed of small stones which protrude through its turf covering in places; it has been extensively mutilated by quarrying.
In the centre are a number of flat slabs, possibly the remains of a cist.
Visited by OS(AC) 3 June 1959.

Cairn (NR) (No detail shown)
OS 6"map, (1961).

Situated on level ground on the W shore of Loch Hope, within a walled pasture field, is an amorphous turf-covered mound, 25.0m in diameter and 1.5m high. The mound has been extensively robbed, presumably to construct the wall around the field, and field clearance has piled upon it subsequently. No wall faces or kerb are exposed, and the 'flat slabs, possibly the remains of a cist' noted by the previous investigator lie loose on the summit of the mound and do not suggest a destroyed cist.
On balance, however, this is probably a cairn.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS(NKB) 19 December 1978.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 4686 5800 (14m by 14m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC45NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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